PJ Media ^ | May 14, 2012 | Andrew Klavan
I was going to write a satire of the mainstream news
media this week but the Washington Post beat me to it. Proving that
they are spiraling toward irrelevance and
bankruptcy the old fashioned way — by earning it! — the
Post ran a hit piece on presumptive
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that managed to be both irrelevant
and suspect, if not altogether untrue. The Post reported that Romney,
as a teenager, bullied a classmate. The newspaper also implied Romney’s motive
was homophobia. Romney admits he was a prankster as a kid, which he regrets, but
says that homophobia had nothing to do with it. The family of the alleged
bullying victim John Lauber says WaPo‘s “portrayal of John is
factually incorrect and we are aggrieved that he would be used to further a
political agenda.”
The politically meaningless and factually dubious story was
timed for release in the immediate wake of Barack Obama’s “evolution” on
gay marriage. In an incredibly gutsy call, Obama
was forced to abandon his make-believe opposition to the controversial issue
when his blithering vice president’s open support for guy-on-guy action
humiliated the president to the point where he stopped lying about being against
gay marriage and lied instead about feeling it was a matter that should be left
to the states.
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